Proekt new Stadium Stanley Park      
      THESE are the most detailed pictures yet of how Liverpool's new stadium on Stanley Park will link in with the old Anfield.

The images have been submitted as part of the football club's planning application to be considered by city councillors next Friday.

As the Daily Post exclusively revealed yesterday, council officers have recommended the new stadium be approved - though the decison will go to the Government for further scrutiny even if elected members concur.

The plans show Anfield's current pitch turning into a public plaza dominated by open space leading up to the new 60,000 seat ground.

A knock-through at the current Anfield Road end of the ground - including the demolition of house numbers 47 to 71 - will make way for the final approach to the new stadium, to be known as Anfield Square.

Either side of the green space of Anfield plaza will be a mixture of apartments, offices, bars and restaurants, and a hotel.

The Hillsborough memorial is likely to be located somewhere in the park but city planners are very much allowing the club and families to come to their own agreement on that.

Various items of public art including statues are also expected to decorate the park - including a possible "walkway of champions" with figures from the club's glorious past.

Opponents of the Stanley Park stadium plan last night said they had always expected Liverpool's planning committee would approve the stadium - but further battles lay ahead.

Joe Kenny, chair of the Anfield Regeneration Action Committee (ARAC), said: "We are currently deciding whether to bring our barrister to the committee next Friday but feel it is probably nothing more than a rubber-stamping exercise.
"We have always thought this will end up at a public inquiry or in the courts and we don't think there is a judge in the land who will approve building a stadium on this park."

Mr Kenny also said: "We asked specifically that a site visit should take place on a match day: that is what is relevant - particularly the night games and the disturbance to residents.

"What relevance is a quiet Friday morning?"

Liberal party leader Steve Radford, councillor for nearby Tuebrook, believes not enough work has been done on the traffic impact of the new stadium.
He said: "What gets me is that we are talking about an increase of 15,000 people per game yet we have not yet had a detailed traffic assessment of what that will mean to the residents of Tuebrook, Clubmoor and Walton who face being even more log-jammed on every matchday than they already are.
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